The No. 2 nationally ranked Oswego State men’s ice hockey team erased a three-goal deficit to come back for an 8-5 win over Morrisville in the SUNYAC Semifinals Feb. 27, setting them up for a showdown with rival Plattsburgh Saturday.

Oswego State, which improved to 24-2-0 overall, will face SUNY Plattsburgh in the SUNY Athletic Conference Championship game Saturday, March 6, at 7 p.m. in Oswego. The game will be webcast with video and play-by-play provided by WTOP-TV.

Central New York fans can also tune into Time Warner Cable's channel 1500. Coverage begins at 5:30 p.m. on TV and the Web.

The contest will be a reprise of the "White Out" game, an unofficial title given to the annual matchup with Plattsburgh at Oswego.

WNYO-FM will broadcast tomorrow's game over the airways and Internet. Fans can also scope live stats online.

The Lakers trailed 3-0 in the first ten minutes of the Morrisville game last Saturday, but charged back behind a hat trick from Tyler Leimbrock ’13 and two goals from Neil Musselwhite ’10.

Morrisville put up the game’s first goal after a rare Oswego State turnover and the Mustangs added two more scores before the period was over.

Oswego State got on the scoreboard when Leimbrock pounded home the rebound from a Musselwhite shot. The Lakers cut the deficit in half minutes later when Musselwhite tapped in another goal to make the score 3-2 at the first intermission.

Morrisville regained its two-goal advantage early in the second period, but the Lakers responded quickly when Leimbrock netted his second goal of the game on his way to a hat trick on the evening.

Musselwhite beat two Morrisville defenders to the puck after causing the turnover for the breakaway.  His shot got past Relkoff broke the 4-4 tie and gave Oswego State its first lead of the game 27 seconds into the third stanza.

SUNYAC Rookie of the Year Jon Whitelaw ’13 gave the Lakers a 6-4 edge when Relkoff came out of the crease to play the puck. Oswego State later capitalized on its eighth power-play chance of the game when SUNYAC MVP Eric Selleck ’12 posted his 21st goal of the season to go ahead 7-4.  Kevin Huinink '11 sealed victory for the Lakers when he scored an empty-net, short-handed goal with a minute remaining.

— Adele Burk

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Fans and team members congratulate forward Jon Whitelaw '13 (#10, center) on his goal that gave the Laker men's hockey team a 6-4 third-period lead over Morrisville in the SUNYAC semifinal game Feb. 27. Tomorrow's SUNYAC Championship game, unofficially dubbed "White Out II," matches Oswego with archrival Plattsbugh in the Campus Center arena.

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